I DO but i don't think YOU do... been there done that, once upon a time i couldn't pay bail and had to sit in jail 3000 miles from home for a week till the case was dismissed in court, i.e. not guilty. not everybody here is 14 years old
Posted on 11/20/2004 10:02:03 AM PST by 4.1O dana super trac pak
A ringing cell phone landed a 17-year-old Patchogue girl facing drug charges in a jail cell this week after an angry district court judge sentenced her to 21 days for contempt.
Mariela Acevedo of 21 Hammond St. incurred the wrath of District Court Judge Salvatore Alamia on Tuesday. As she awaited her hearing, an electronic device went off in Alamia's Central Islip courtroom and he warned everyone to shut off all cell phones and pagers or face contempt charges.
"If you don't know how to shut it off, go outside and introduce it to the heel of your shoe, he said according to a transcript.
When Acevedo's phone subsequently sounded, Alamia called the teenager forward and asked, "Did you think I was playing with you?"
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
She didn't get 21 "extra" days. She's serving the penalty for the contempt charge at the same time as the 45 days she's serving on the drug charge and will spend no "additional" days in jail.
Millions enter our country illegally, at will, routinely, and the government stands winking and nodding yet the government, ie: Judges, law enforcement, congress etc demands and forces us to pay billions for this lawlessness, or else we are sent to jail too.
Do you not see a broken picture here? Do you not see the ultimate, glaring hypocrisy here?
Sure, you're not a racist. You just have a one track mind. BTW, a liberal is someone bases his personal responsibility and morality on what other people do. They say, "Why should I have to follow the law if others are getting away with it?" Looks like you do too.
This judge is clearly unstable and believes his own press. It will only be a matter of time before he turns up with a suction pump under his cloak, porn on a government computer or dating an underaged prostitute. But, I guess that will be okay because he's a judge. Anything a judge does is okay. Order must be kept.
I DO but i don't think YOU do... been there done that, once upon a time i couldn't pay bail and had to sit in jail 3000 miles from home for a week till the case was dismissed in court, i.e. not guilty. not everybody here is 14 years old
Of course I do. I'm with you on that. However, there are rules that the rest of us "civilized" people must live by. A courtroom is sancrosanct, whether it be ruled by an asshole judge or an honset judge. That's not really the point here, is it?
I've met a few judges that are contemptible, but if you're too stupid to know how to shut your cellphone off, you shouldn't have one. That's all I'm saying.
FMCDH(BITS)
"It will only be a matter of time before he turns up with a suction pump under his cloak"
that's funny. I forgot about the suction pump judge.
your straw man argument is getting old... nobody is saying that illegal immigration isn't bad or that we don't wish it was being more aggressively enforced, but THIS JUDGE has NOTHING to do with what you are abgassin on about!!! if this judge let illegals go only to send her to jail that'd be one thing but you are using apples and oranges just to argue.
You insult someone who read and took at face value what you posted as an excerpt of the article of this thread.
Reminds me of the line from Animal House, "You f----d up. You trusted us."
(BTW, is there a prohibition against posting the entire article?)
Here is what I wrote:
It is that judge that should be thrown in jail. No one should send a 17 YEAR OLD GIRL to go shack up with the bull-daggers for 21 days, for forgetting her cell phone was on.
Please do better, next time.
I hope this young woman can turn her life around and be with people who will show her love through some kind of discipline. Sometimes that is all that is needed...love combined with discipline.
Hardly ad hominem. To suggest she will "shack up with the bull-daggers for 21 days" while in jail is ridiculous.
You mean that everytime you've forgotten to turn off your cell phone ringer, you were in a court of law and you had been warned by the judge to turn the ringer off? Wow, you must spend a lot of time in courtrooms!
Yeah, I've heard that over and over.
The judges, congress, the President, law enforcement, mayors, they are all innocent, and have nothing to do with this epic lawlessness. Yet if you fail to pay your taxes, to pay for this epic lawlessness, you can be damn sure, they are coming after *you* with force.
BA! I tire of this massive, glaring government hipocracy and their endless lies.
Yeah, and then you'll get charged with a felony. Then, sometime after you're convicted, you'll likely hear a prison guard say "Dan, I'd like to introduce you to your new cellmate, Bubba".
You wus serious bout that?
However, I still stand by my opinions on this and want to emphasize that jail is nothing compared to prison. She'll be fine in there and can count herself blessed for not being in prison - yet.
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